Curriculum Vita

Curriculum Vita
THOMAS PLÜMPER
October 12, 2015
Professor of Quantitative Social Research
Vienna University of Economics
Institute of Social Research
DA3
Welthandelsplatz 1
1020 Wien
Austria
phone: +43.1.571405
mobile: +43.664.1627583
email: thomas.pluemper@wu.ac.at
skype: thomas.pluemper
webpage: www.polsci.org/pluemper
Citizenship: German
Researcher ID: G-7559-2011
Education
Habilitation (Political Science) University of Konstanz, 2001
Ph.D. (Political Science) Free University of Berlin, 1995 (Dr. rer pol., summa cum laude)
Diploma (Political Science) Free University of Berlin, 1991 (with distinction)
BA (equivalent) Political Science and Economics, Free University of Berlin
Previous Academic Positions
University of Essex (2005 – 2015)
12.12 – 09.15
09.12 – 11.13
10.07 – 09.15
10.06 – 09.15
10.05. – 09.07
Director of the Institute for Social Science Data Analysis
Head of Department of Government
Professor of Government
Director of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
Reader of Government
10.04 – 09.05
05.98 – 09.04
Professor of Comparative Politics (Lehrstuhl-Vertretung)
Assistant und Hochschuldozent for International Relations
University of Konstanz (1998 – 2005)
Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (1995 – 1997)
04.95 – 06.97
Post-Doc Scholar
University of Potsdam (1994 – 1995)
09.94 – 03.95
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
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Visiting Affiliations, Research Positions, and Temporary Fellowships
09.15 – ..
09.12 – ..
07.06 – ..
06.06 – ..
09.05 – 08.11
09.02 – 07.03
03.01 – 06.01
07.99 – 08.99
07.98 – 08.98
Visiting Professor, University of Essex
Research Associate, CAGE, University of Warwick
Fellow, IIIS, Trinity College, Dublin
Fellow, PRIO, Oslo
Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Jena
Fellow, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence
Visiting Scholar, Center for West European Studies, University of
Pittsburgh
GAAC Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science,
Stanford University
GAAC Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Main Academic Services and Organizational Activities
European Political Science Association
07.14 – 06.15
08.12 – ..
07.11 – 08.12
06.10 – ..
06.10.
Chair of Program Committee, EPSA
Executive Director
Chair of Program Committee, EPSA
Council Member, EPSA
Founder of the European Political Science Association
European Consortium for Political Research
01.04 – 06.10
Convener, Standing Group on Political Economy, ECPR
Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft
02.99 – 04.04
Sprecher, Arbeitskreis für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie
Editorial Boards
07.13 – ..
06.12 – ..
01.10 – ..
07.09 – ..
07.07 – 06.12
01.07 – ..
International Interactions
Political Science Research and Methods
European Journal of Political Research
Journal of Theoretical Politics
Political Analysis
Journal of European Public Policy
Honors and Awards
2013
2005
2004
2004
2002
1995
ESRC Transformative Grant
Political Economy of International Finance Award
Department of Government, Students’ Teaching Award
SAGE Prize for the best article published in EU Politics
Suedwestmetall-Habilitationspreis
Max-Planck Gesellschaft, Post-Doc Fellowship
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1992
1991
Dissertationsstipendium, Land Berlin
FU Berlin Travel Fund
Grant Income
UK
2013
2012
2008
Germany
2006
2004
2002
2000
various
European Union
2004
ECSR, 250.000 Pound
British Academy, 270.000 Pound
British Academy, 10.000 Pound
DFG, 50.000 Euro
DFG, 130.000 Euro
VW-Foundation, 155.000 Euro
VW-Foundation, 135.000 Euro
Land Baden-Wuerttemberg, 18.000 Euro
FP 6, 120.000 Euro
under review: app. 1.000.000 Euro (ERC)
In preparation: 250.000 Pound (ESRC)
Media
BBC: Economic Crisis, Monetary Policy, Euro
ZDF: Economic Crisis
Al Jazeera London: International Terrorism
Wirtschaftswoche: Economic Crisis, Euro
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Natural Disasters, Higher Education Policies, Academic Fraud
Deutschlandfunk: Economic Crisis
Sanlian Lifeweek (China): Economic Crisis
Metro: Famine and Food Aid
SWF
Spiegel
Consultancy
Iraq Central Organization of Statistics and Information Technology
United Nations Research Unit
World Bank
United Nations Development Program
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
Refused:
Central Intelligence Agency, USA
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Publications
Metrics
SSCI
Articles: 43
Citations: 1028
h-index: 16
Google Scholar
Citations: 3972
Citations since 2010: 2619
h-index: 29
I10-index: 62
Thomson Reuter Researcher ID: G-7559-2011
Statistical Software Components
2015
ROBUST – Stata module to compute the robustness of two estimates (with Eric
Neumayer)
EFFECT – Stata module to compute the effect of a variable for an observation
(with Eric Neumayer)
2009
SPMON – Stata module to create spatial effect variable for monadic data (with
Eric Neumayer), http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/bocode.html
SPAGG – Stata module to create aggregate source or target contagion spatial
effect variable for directed dyadic data (with Eric Neumayer),
http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/bocode.html
SPSPC – Stata module to create specific source or target contagion variable for
directed dyadic data (with Eric Neumayer),
http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/bocode.html
SPUNDIR – Stata module to create directed dyad contagion spatial effect
variable (with Eric Neumayer), http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/bocode.html
SPDIR – Stata module to create directed dyad spatial effect variable for directed
dyadic data (with Eric Neumayer), http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/bocode.html
2007
XTFEVD – Stata module to estimate a fixed effect vector decomposition model
(with Vera E. Troeger)
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Refereed Journal Articles
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Income Inequality and Inequality in Longevity (with Eric Neumayer), American
Journal of Public Health, forthcoming.
W, (with Eric Neumayer), Political Science Research and Methods, forthcoming.
Free-riding in Alliances. Testing an Old Theory with a New Method, Conflict
Management and Peace Science 32:3, (with Eric Neumayer), 247-268.
The Peer-Effect in Counterterrorist Policies, International Organization 68:1
(with Eric Neumayer and Mariaelisa Epifanio) 211-234.
The Political Economy of Natural Disaster Damage, Global Environmental
Change 24:1 (with Eric Neumayer and Fabian Barthel), 8-19.
International Terrorism and Counterterrorism, International Interactions 40: 4,
(with Eric Neumayer) 579-589.
Health Spending, Out-of-Pocket Contributions, and Mortality Rates, Public
Administration 91:2 (with Eric Neumayer), 403-418.
Conditional Spatial Policy Dependence, (with Eric Neumayer), Comparative
Political Studies 45:7, 819-849.
Fixed Effects Vector Decomposition, (with Vera Troeger) Political Analysis 19:
2, 147-164.
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Earthquake Mortality (with Phil
Keefer and Eric Neumayer), World Development 39:9, 1530-1541.
Foreign Terror on Americans, Journal of Peace Research, (with Eric Neumayer),
48:1, 3-17.
Fear of Floating and de Facto Exchange Rate Regime Choice with Multiple Key
Currencies, (with Eric Neumayer), International Studies Quarterly 64:1, 145166.
Making Spatial Analysis operational: Ado-files for generating Spatial Effect
Variables in Monadic and Dyadic Data, (with Eric Neumayer), Stata Journal
10:4, 585-605.
The Level of Democracy During Interregnum Periods. Recoding the Polity2
Score, Political Analysis 18:2 (with Eric Neumayer), 206-226.
Spatial Effects in Dyadic Data, International Organization 64:1 (with Eric
Neumayer), 145-166.
Specification Problems in the Analysis of Spatial Dependence, European Journal
of Political Research 49:3 (with Eric Neumayer), 418-442.
The Friend of my Enemy is my Enemy. International Alliance and International
Terrorism (with Eric Neumayer), European Journal of Political Research 49:1,
75-96.
Contagion Effects in International Terrorism (with Eric Neumayer)
Conflict Management and Peace Science
2009
2008
International Terrorism and the Clash of Civilization. British Journal of Political
Science 39: 4 (with Eric Neumayer), 711-734.
Famine Mortality and Rational Political Inactivity, World Development 37:1
(with Eric Neumayer), 50-61.
Why is there no Race to the Bottom in Capital Taxation? International Studies
Quarterly 53:3 (with Vera E. Troeger and Hannes Winner), 761-786.
The Computation of Convergence, or: How to Chase a Black Cat in a Dark Room,
Journal of European Public Policy 16:7 (with Christina Schneider), 990-1011.
Fear of Floating and the External Effects of Currency Unions, American Journal
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of Political Science 52:3, (with Vera Troeger), 656-676.
2007
2006
2005
2004
Spatial Multiparty Competition with Abstention and Biased Voters, Electoral
Studies 27 (with Christian W. Martin), 424-441.
Efficient Estimation of Time-Invariant and Rarely Changing Variables in Panel
Data Analysis with Unit Effects, Political Analysis 15:2 (with Vera Troeger),
124-139.
Discriminatory EU Membership and the Redistribution of Enlargement Gains,
Journal of Conflict Resolution 51:4 (with Christina Schneider), 568-587.
The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events
on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 97:3 (with Eric Neumayer), 551-566.
Too Much to Die, too Little to Live: Unemployment, Higher Education Policies
and University Budgets in Germany, 1975-2000, Journal of European Public
Policy 14:4 (with Christina Schneider), 631-653.
Academic Heavyweights. (Yet) another Ranking of Political Science Journals,
European Political Science 6:1, 41-50.
Berufungsdeterminanten in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft, 1990-2004,
Politische Vierteljahresschrift 48: 1 (with Frank Schimmelfennig), 97-117.
Ohne Substanz. Eine Antwort an Gross und Jungbauer-Gans, Politische
Vierteljahresschrift 48:3 (with Frank Schimmelfennig)
Der deutsche akademische Arbeitsmarkt. Genderaspekte, Femina Politica (with
Frank Schimmelfennig)
The Unequal Burden of War: On the Effect of Conflicts on the Gender Gap in Life
Expectancy, International Organization 60:3 (with Eric Neumayer), 723-754.
Regulatory Conditionality and Membership Selection in the EU. Evidence from a
Heckman Selection Model, British Journal of Political Science 36:1 (with
Christina J. Schneider and Vera E. Troeger), 17-38.
The Euro and Monetary Policy Autonomy in European Non-Euro Countries,
European Union Politics 7:2 (with Vera E. Troeger), 213-234.
European Integration, Policy Autonomy and Party Competition: Introduction,
European Union Politics 7:2 (with Jakob deHaan), 163-166.
Instabilität von parteipolitischen Programmen: Der Einfluss der Zahl der
Parteien, Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 5 (with Christian
W. Martin)
Panel Data Analysis in Comparative Politics: Linking Method to Theory,
European Journal of Political Research, 44: 2 (with Vera E. Troeger and Philip
Manow), 327-354.
Number of Parties, Endogenous Partisan Preferences and Electoral Turnout
Rates: A Stochastic Equilibrium Analysis, Social Science Computer Review 23:3,
(with Christian W. Martin) 347-359
The Internal Value of External Options. On the Impact of EU Conditionality on
Regulatory Reforms in Transition Countries, European Union Politics 5:3. (with
Walter Mattli), 307-330.
Publications and Citations of Italian Political Scientists, Journal of European
Public Policy (with Claudio Radaelli),
Government Spending in Democracies and Autocracies, in: Constitutional
Political Economy, 15:3 (with Kjell Hausken and Christian Martin), 239-259.
Stammwähler und die opportunistische Wahl parteipolitischer Präferenzen,
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 10:2 (with Christian Martin),
1-31.
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2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
Democracy, Government Spending, and Economic Growth. A Political-Economic
Explanation of the Barro-Effect, in: Public Choice, 117:1/2 (with Christian
Martin), 27-50.
Publikationstätigkeit und Rezeptionserfolg der deutschen Politikwissenschaft in
internationalen Journalen, 1990-2002, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 44:4,
529-544.
Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and Capital Controls in Transition Countries, 19932000, in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies 36: 2 (with Thilo Bodenstein
and Gerald Schneider), 231-243.
Exploring the Dynamics of International Trade by Combining the Comparative
Advantages of Multivariate Statistics and Network Analysis, in: Journal of Social
Structures 4:1, (with Lothar Krempel), 1-22.
The Demand-Side Politics of EU Enlargement: Democracy and the Application
for EU Membership, in: Journal of European Public Policy 9:4 (with Walter
Mattli), 550-574.
Containing Contagious Financial Crises: The Political Economy of Joint
Intervention into the Asian Crisis, in: Public Choice 111:3/4 (with Kjell
Hausken), 209-236.
Export Specialization, Industrial Policy, and Economic Performance, in: Review
of International Political Economy 8:4 (with Michael Graff), 661-688.
Die Politik wirtschaftlichen Wachstums in autoritären Staaten, in: Politische
Vierteljahresschrift 42: 1, 79-100.
Regimetyp und Wirtschaftswachstum. Ein Kommentar (nicht nur) zu Herbert
Obinger, Swiss Political Science Review 7:3 (with Christian Martin), 45-66.
Bringing Putnam to the European Regions: On the Relevance of Social Capital
for Economic Growth, in: European Urban and Regional Studies 7:4, (with
Gerald Schneider and Steffen Baumann), 307-317.
Steuerwettbewerb und Steuerreformen, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 40: 3,
(with Günther Schulze), 445-457.
International Division of Labour and Global Economic Integration: The Case of
Trade in Passenger Cars, in: Journal of World System Research 5:3, (with Lothar
Krempel), 487-498.
The Impact of Actor Heterogeneity on the Provision of International Public
Goods, in: International Interactions 25:1, (with Kjell Hausken), 61-94.
Die Erkenntnisgrenzen der Diskursanalyse. Ein Kommentar zu Rieger und
Leibfried, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 39:3, (with Philip Manow), 590-601.
Hegemons, Leaders and Followers: A Game-theoretic Approach to the Postwar
Dynamics of the International Political Economy, in: Journal of World System
Research 3:1 (with Kjell Hausken), 35-93.
Regulatory Competition and International Cooperation, in: Journal of European
Public Policy 4:4, (with Philipp Genschel), 626-642.
Kommunikation und Kooperation in der internationalen Bankenregulierung, in:
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 3:2 (with Philipp Genschel), 225253.
Hegemonic Decline and International Leadership, in: Politics and Society 24:3
(with Kjell Hausken), 273-295.
Souveränität im gegenwärtigen internationalen System, in: WeltTrends 12, 147160.
Quasi-rationale Akteure und die Funktion internationaler Institutionen, in:
Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen 2:1, 49-77.
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1994
Die begrenzte Voraussagefähigkeit der Theorien internationaler Politik, in:
WeltTrends 4, 130-149.
under review
Issue Salience and the Partisan Effect in Counterterrorist Policies (with
Mariaelisa Epifanio), European Journal of Political Research (r&r).
Case Selection in Qualitative Research (with Eric Neumayer and Vera Troeger),
Sociological Methods and Research.
Not so harmless after all. Fixed Effects as Identification Strategy, American
Journal of Political Science.
work in progress Missing Girls in Immigration Communities, (with Richard Traunmueller)
Robustness Tests for Sensitivity Analyses (with Richard Traunmueller)
Altitudes and Politics (with Alejandro Quiroz Flores)
Shrinking Panel Estimation (with Vera E. Troeger)
Books (monographs)
2015
2014
2012
2007
2003
1996
Tax Competition and Income Inequality, in preparation, with Vera Troeger.
Robustness Tests for the Analysis of Observational Data, 1st draft, with Eric
Neumayer. (in negotiations with Cambridge UP and Princeton UP)
Effizient Schreiben, 3rd edition Oldenbourg Verlag, München
Effizient Schreiben, 2nd edition Oldenbourg Verlag, München
Effizient Schreiben, Oldenbourg Verlag, München
Der Wandel weltwirtschaftlicher Institutionen: Regimedynamik durch ökonomische Prozesse, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.
Edited Volumes
2004
2003
2002
2001
1999
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 3, VS, Wiesbaden
(Public Choice Yearbook)
Politische Integration, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen.
(Political Integration)
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 2, Leske und Budrich,
Opladen.
(Public Choice Yearbook)
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 1, Leske und Budrich,
Opladen.
Globalisierung und wirtschaftliche Integration: Beiträge zu einem populären
Konzept, Nomos, Baden-Baden (co-edited by Andreas Busch).
(Globalization and Economic Integration)
1996
Lexikon der internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Oldenbourg, München.
(Dictionary of International Economic Relations)
1994
Ernst Fraenkel: Völkerrecht und Internationale Beziehungen, Oldenbourg,
München (co-edited by Günther Doeker).
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Special Issues (Journals)
2006
1999
1994
European Integration and Partisan Politics at the National Level, European
Union Politics 7:2.
Steuerwettbewerb, Vetospieler und die These der blockierten Anpassung,
Politische Vierteljahresschrift 40:3 and 40:4.
Wirtschaftspolitik, Initial 5:1.
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